Hello!👋
I’m Lisa Orii, a Ph.D. candidate at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. I am advised by Professor Richard Anderson in the ICTD Lab. In 2022, I was selected to MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 Japan. I am a Japanese Quad Fellow for the inaugural cohort of the Quad Fellowship. During 2021-2023, I was funded by The Funai Foundation for Information Technology. I received my B.A. from Wellesley College, where I double majored in Computer Science and Philosophy.
船井情報科学振興財団の奨学生です。留学報告書を書いています。Computer scienceかinformation scienceの海外大学院を検討している方はぜひご覧ください！
Research
I research human-centered mobile health technologies that support healthcare delivery in low- and middle-income countries. Here are some projects I have worked on in the past few years.
A novel mobile app for contraceptive decision-support tailored to adolescent girls and young women seeing contraceptive services in pharmacies in Kenya.
article Paper in CHI 2025
Improving security gaps and opportunities for a mobile medical record system for HIV care in Malawi.
article Paper in PLOS ONE article Paper in CSCW 2024 article Paper in CHI 2024
Designs for digital and non-digital tools to record and share menopause experiences intergenerationally.
article Paper in CSCW 2024
Understanding the impact of listening to speech role models and voice manipulation on the self-perception of speech and voice.
article Paper in CHI 2022
Celebratory News✨
- Apr 2025: Presented our paper at CHI 2025 at Yokohama, Japan! Also helped out as student volunteer!
- Jan 2025: Papers accepted to CHI 2025 and PLOS ONE!
- Dec 2024: Became a PhD CANDIDATE!
- Nov 2024: Presented our paper at CSCW 2024 at San Jose, Costa Rica!
- May 2024: Presented our Best Paper Honorable Mention paper at CHI 2024 at Honolulu!
more news!
- Apr 2024: Our CSCW paper is published in PACM HCI journal. Here is the PDF!
- Apr 2024: Awarded the Horton-Hallowell Fellowship from Wellesley College!
- Apr 2024: Started my internship with PATH in Digital Square and Primary Health Care teams!
- Apr 2024: Conducted fieldwork in Kenya for research!
- Mar 2024: Paper accepted to CHI 2024: Link to paper!
- Jan 2024: Awarded a grant from the UW Global Innovation Fund for our work on app dev for contraceptive education in Kenya!
- Nov 2023: Paper accepted to CSCW 2024!
- June 2023: Attended the Quad Fellowship Summit in Melbourne, Australia.
- Dec 2022: Selected to the inaugural cohort of the Quad Fellowship!
- Nov 2022: Selected to MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 Japan!
- Sept 2022: Conducted fieldwork research at a HIV clinic in Malawi for 2 weeks
- June 2022: Helped organize and attended ICTD and ACM COMPASS 2022 at UW!
- May 2022: Attended my first in-person conference at CHI 2022 where I presented our paper “Designing for Speech Practice Systems: How Do User-Controlled Voice Manipulation and Model Speakers Impact Self-Perceptions of Voice?”!
- Sept 2021: Officially started my Ph.D. at UW!
- Sept 2021: Attended AutomotiveUI ‘21 and presented our paper “Perceptions of Trucking Automation: Insights from the r/Truckers Community”!
- June 2021: Graduated from Wellesley College
- May 2021: Attended my first (virtual) conference at CHI 2021
- Apr 2021: Committed to University of Washington CS Ph.D. program!
- Nov 2020: Selected as a Grantee of Funai Overseas Scholarship